Agenda item

(To receive a report by David Stacey (Programme Manager, Strategy and Performance) which presents the findings of the prioritisation process and stakeholder engagement for the next Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy)

Consideration was given to a report by David Stacey (Programme Manager, Strategy and Performance), which invited the Board to discuss and agree the priorities for further development into the next Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire.

The Board was reminded that it was a statutory duty under the Health and Social Care Act 2012 for the Local Authority and each of its partner clinical commissioning groups to produce a Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS) for meeting the needs identified in the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA).

Currently the JHWS produced by the Health and Wellbeing Board for Lincolnshire was due to end in 2018 and in March 2017, the Board had agreed an approach to developing the next JHWS for Lincolnshire.

The approach had included a series of stages of engagement with the aim of the Board:

·         Identifying what the Board felt the priorities for the next JHWS should be (utilising a previously agreed prioritisation framework);

·         Understanding the views of people who live and work in Lincolnshire;

·         Enabling the Health Scrutiny Committee for Lincolnshire to have an opportunity to feed their views into the process;

·         Ensuring that groups representing the views of people with protected characteristics (as defined by the Equality Act 2010) had their voice heard as part of developing the next JHWS for Lincolnshire.

In order to achieve the above, an engagement plan for identifying the possible priorities for the next JHWS was developed and was detailed on page 113 of the agenda pack.

The engagement on the prioritisation of the JSNA to inform the development of the next JHWS for Lincolnshire had been extensive in seeking and obtaining the views of over 400 people directly representing over 100 organisations and groups across the county as well as individual members of the public.  A full analysis report on the outcome of the engagement was detailed at Appendix A to the report.

The Board was advised that there was a high degree of commonality across the different engagement stages and in summary, the overall emerging priorities which had been identified from the engagement, were as follows: -

·         Mental Health – both Adults and Children/Young People;

·         Housing;

·         Carers;

·         Physical Activity;

·         Dementia; and

·         Obesity.

The Board was provided with an opportunity to ask questions, where the following points were noted: -

·         A Member of the Board suggested that the two emerging priorities on physical activity and obesity could be merged into one.  In response, the Board was advised of the differences between the two emerging priorities;

·         It was suggested that as part of the emerging priority on housing that youth housing was also included;

·         It was emphasised that the emerging priority on Mental Health – both Adults and Children/Young People was one of importance and should be taken forward as a priority.

RESOLVED

(1)  That the evaluation report detailing the engagement on the next Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire be received.

(2)  That the following priorities be approved for further development as part of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire, subject to the inclusion of the comments of the members of the Board set out above: -

·                Mental Health – both Adults and Children/Young People;

·                Housing;

·                Carers;

·                Physical Activity;

·                Dementia; and

·                Obesity.

(3)  That the members of the Health and Wellbeing Board who would lead on the further development and drafting of the Joint Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Lincolnshire be allocated at a later date.